Chapter 32-32
The conversation between me and the third uncle just now was all slander. Ling Guangzu explained to me many times, and when he encountered a fellow disciple, he should answer what should he answer. What words should he use to find a fellow disciple.
Our sect makes a living by fortune-telling and divination. In the eyes of outsiders, it is called the Jiangxiang School. There are too many people who make a living in the world, such as those who talk about crosstalk, those who sell Dali pills with bare hands, those who use unique skills to serve as bodyguards, and those who beg along the street with dog-beating sticks... These people are not on the same level as those who tell fortunes and divination. We rely on wisdom to make a living, and they rely on strength to make a living. They are playing a two-player, and we are playing a brain, and in these worlds, those who tell fortunes and divination are called prime ministers, who dares to be called Taizai? This is the origin of our gang called Jiangxiang School.
We are from the Jiang Xiang School, and we are called Xiang in the world. Our generation is ranked in three generations, the highest one is Jinshi, the second one is Juren, and the second one is scholar. Disciples like me who have already started are called Juren. Those who have not yet started are called scholars.
The master has three disciples. Ling Guangzu is the master's eldest disciple. When he recognizes his fellow disciples, he will say that he is the top scholar. Now this tall and thin man says that he is Tanhua, so he is naturally the master's third disciple.
The third uncle waved to the bushes behind him, and another person walked out of the bushes. He was also tall and thin. He walked up to me and looked at me and said, "I'll beat you up and call me and lightly. How can this kid become a prime minister? I'm the second-tier one."
When I heard this, I knew that I had met a fellow fellow again. He was not only a fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow student, but also a second uncle.
Hurrying and Lightly Knocking and Lightly Selling are both mantras in the art of physiognomy. This is the most basic key that all people in the art of physiognomy need to master. Hurrying and Selling Selling is to ask a sudden question, catch the other party off guard, tell the truth, and then through intimidation, he has to ask you to relieve the disaster for him. Lightly Knocking and Selling is to knock on the other party, draw the truth, and then speak your own way to avoid disaster. These two sentences are the key points of the art of physiognomy, and are secrets to the outside world. If you can say these two sentences, you will undoubtedly be a fellow disciple.
The second uncle praised me just now, and he also used slanderous words from the world. He said that although I am a little baby, my physiognomy is very high and I know how to use intimidation and pretending to be a ghost to tease the matchmaker.
I asked, "How did you come here?"
The third uncle said: "Let's come to see the eldest brother."
I asked again, "How do you know that my master is here?"
The third uncle said: "Who doesn't know the name of Ling Guangzu in the world, and who doesn't know it? Everyone in the art of beauty knows that he lives in seclusion in Xiangyong Temple to avoid war."
So that's how it is. The person who hides from the City God Temple to intimidate me, the person who puts a hundred silver dollars on his waist as soon as he goes out, turned out to be a famous figure in the world of physiognomy. I used to laugh at him.
Just now, Uncle Third Master grabbed my clothes and cut off the trees with one palm, which made me both terrified and shocked. I asked, "What's going on?"
The third uncle said: "It is the same as you wearing a skirt and wearing stilts."
The third uncle asked me to touch the hem of my clothes, with a few date thorns tied on the hem. The third uncle said, "Your clothes are caught by date thorns. You can't run away by yourself, and it's not that I'll catch you from the air."
The third uncle took me to the tree again. The broken holes of the trees were very neatly, and a rope was connected to the branches. The third uncle said, "I was chopping my palms behind me, and the second uncle hid in the grass and pulled them, and the trees fell down. The trees were sawed in advance by us, only a little bit connected."
After the second and third uncles came to Xiangyong Temple, the Xiangyong Temple was very lively. Their three brothers talked about the story of the world all day long. I didn’t want to listen, so I wanted to find Ye Zi. Ye Zi’s attraction to me is better than these legends of the world.
After seeing Ye Zi, I asked, "Have the matchmaker come to the door these days?"
Ye Zi said: "It's strange that I didn't come."
I asked with a smile, "Do you want to hear why the matchmaker is not here?"
Ye Zi said: "I want to hear, I want to hear."
I told Ye Zi that I was pretending to be a ghost in the grave and was teasing and scaring the matchmaker. The matchmaker was so scared that she kowtowed and begged for mercy. Ye Zi was so happy that she heard it, jumping and jumping.
At that time, my sex was in its infancy, and I regarded Ye Zi as my wife. Although I knew that my wife was a good thing, I didn’t know the important value of her wife.
We are often together, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. We hold each other and feel very beautiful. Our close contact has ended here.
The two uncles came to Xiangyong Temple for not long, and something that caused a sensation in the Dabie Mountains was staged. This incident is still spreading to this day and is spreading magically.
Perhaps no one knew that the initiator of that incident was actually the four people in Xiangyong Temple.
This incident was called "Guanyin's appearance" by people in Dabie Mountains.
The nineteenth day of the lunar month is Guanyin's third birthday. Buddhist legend says that on this day, Guanyin cultivated into the body of a Bodhisattva and sat on the lotus platform.
In the summer and autumn of this year, there were legends everywhere in the Dabie Mountains that Guanyin would appear on the 19th day of the ninth lunar month of this year, falling from the sky and visit Xiangyong Temple. Whenever there was a market, there would be some notices from unknown places in the market, and the notices would be written on yellow paper, with such content written on the paper. The news that Guanyin was about to appear at Xiangyong Temple blew all over the Dabie Mountains like the wind. People were in restaurants, in inns, on roads, on dining tables, even in bandits’ dens, behind the doors of the yamen, on the beds of the brothels... This news was full of legends, and this news was like bees, and as long as you walked out of the house, you could hear it.
Xiangyong Temple has become a place that people pay most attention to. Many people traveled through mountains and rivers and came to Xiangyong Temple in a dusty way, just to see the place where Guanyin was about to appear; many people stuffed money in the merit box just to make Guanyin who was about to appear to protect their family's safety; many people built huts on the mountains around Xiangyong Temple, and came to Xiangyong Temple to sing incense and worship Buddha every day, just to verify the legend that I don't know where it came from.
With infinite longing and expectations, people finally looked forward to the 19th day of the lunar month, and that exciting moment came. On this day, from the morning, they came to Xiangyong Temple. They stood in the valley near Xiangyong Temple and stood beside the road leading to Xiangyong Temple. They carried dry food bags and dragged their children. The dry food bags contained fresh early-ripe corn and steamed rice balls; they carried clay pots, and filled with cooked porridge or boiled water. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, they saw that there were surging crowds gathering on both sides of each road leading to Xiangyong Temple, like pythons crawling towards Xiangyong Temple.
That night, the moonlight was like a practice.
People looked up at the moon and suddenly saw Guanyin walking out of the moon. Guanyin was wearing a long gown and long skirt. Her skirt and every streamer danced in the wind. Guanyin slowly walked down from the moon. She waved her arms, flapping her wings, and she seemed to be carrying willow branches to spread nectar into the world. Guanyin was transparent, crystal clear, and beautiful. Everyone who saw this moment was kneeling on the ground. Some were stunned with their eyes wide open, some opened their mouths and murmured, and some looked at Guanyin and kowtowed.
Guanyin walked in the air, her gait was elegant and she walked slowly and calmly. She walked to a mountain top, and then from the top to the foot of the mountain. She stayed at the foot of the mountain for a while, and then walked to the edge of a cliff. The cliff was straight and as sharp as it could be seen even on this bright moonlit night. However, Guanyin stepped on the cliff with her feet and walked up slowly and calmly. Guanyin walked up the cliff hundreds of feet high easily. Standing on that cliff, like a magnificent sculpture, Guanyin calmed down and waved her arms, as if she was dancing, and as if she was continuing to sprinkle nectar on the earth.
Then, Guanyin slowly descended along the ridge and walked towards Xiangyong Temple. At this moment, people all knelt down, and great happiness knocked them down. Some cried bitterly, some were crying, some were crying, some were trembling, and some were almost fainting.
Guanyin walked past people, and then people saw clearly. She held the gill bottle in one hand and the willow branches in the other. She put the gill branches into the gill bottle, dipped in nectar, and sprinkled them on the heads, bodies, spines, and buttocks of the people kneeling on both sides of the road. Everyone who had endured nectar cried bitterly.
Chapter completed!